A comparison of pulmonary function in bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive bronchitis
Open Access
- 1 January 1970
- Vol. 25 (1), 101-104
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.25.1.101
Abstract
The dynamic and static lung volumes, arterial blood-gas tensions, and single-breath carbonmonoxide transfer factor have been compared in 72 asthmatic and 45 bronchitic patients with airways obstruction of comparable severity to determine which measurements might be used to discriminate between the two diseases. The forced vital capacity, total lung capacity, arterial carbon-dioxide tension, and transfer factor were useful in this respect. Thus, in a patient with airways obstruction the finding of a low% predicted FVC (2 is most compatible with a diagnosis of bronchial asthma.Keywords
This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
- An analysis of pre-operative Pao2 in a general surgical populationThorax, 1969
- HYPOXÆMIA IN BRONCHIAL ASTHMAThe Lancet, 1968
- Pulmonary function in bronchial asthma.BMJ, 1968
- Transfer factor for carbon monoxide in patients with airways obstruction.1967
- CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE .2. RELATIONSHIP OF CLINICAL AND PHYSIOLOGIC FINDINGS TO SEVERITY OF AIRWAYS OBSTRUCTIONPublished by Elsevier ,1965
- THE DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA IN THE PRESENCE OF CHRONIC BRONCHITISQJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 1963
- A Standardized Breath Holding Technique for the Clinical Measurement of the Diffusing Capacity of the Lung for Carbon Monoxide 1Journal of Clinical Investigation, 1957
- Normal Standards for Lung Volumes, Intrapulmonary Gas-mixing, and Maximum Breathing CapacityThorax, 1954